Regarding 'pirogue', any francophone West African would use this word a lot. Senegalese fishermen always use large pirogues on the Atlantic seaboard. Sung French tends to accent the final 'e' of a word, so pee-rog-uh would be the pronunciation if sung, but pee-rog if said. I've been in two or three pirogues, they're not dug-outs, but modern style wooden clinker-built boats nowadays, brightly painted and with outboard engines. Several poor Senegalese souls have been drowned in their pirogues trying to illegally enter Europe via the coast of Spain. Strangely, very few of them can actually swim.